The Traveling Idiots-Where The Tuck Are They Now?: Everyday low prices at a discount!

The entire land portion of this trip was booked in about two hours time earlier this year. We were in the Admirals Club at DFW waiting to catch a flight to London in early March. Thanks to Beth's amazing ability to plan, everything has worked out incredibly smooth and all of the routing made perfect sense. Well at least until yesterday. We left Jasper heading for Salmon Arm which the GPS showed to be about a five and a half hour drive. The scenery was typical of what we've had on every drive. Mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and a little wildlife mixed in for good measure. No bears, but elk and deer grazing happily along side the road every once in a while.
We stopped at Wells Gray Provincial Park (Provincial Parks are similar to state parks in the US). A short hike took us to the Spahats Creek Falls where the 200 foot main drop looked to be coming out of a hole in the canyon wall (or out of my nose depending on which picture you're looking at)
http://wellsgray.ca/
As we got closer to Salmon Arm we stretched our legs in the town of Kamloops. It was at this point we realized that Salmon Arm wasn't quite on the way and that to reach it we would be driving about an hour to the east when we should be heading west. A drive we'll have to repeat Sunday when we leave here headed for Whistler. No big deal, kind of like driving to Dallas in the old days and the scenery is much better and the drivers are much more courteous.
I get amused watching people have total meltdowns at airports, hotels, cruise ships and other places while they are on a relaxing "get away". Yes, things can and will happen. Sometimes you have to wonder "can they really be that stupid" (hint: the answer is yes). Other times you have to wonder "could I have really been that stupid" (hint: the answer is yes). Roll with it. It will most likely be one of the things you remember the most in the long run. Like the time we got to the airport in Copenhagen flying to Prague only to find out that the airline had gone out of business 2 weeks earlier. We still got to Prague, but it did cost us a little bit more.
Speaking of rolling with it, a lot of folks up here are having to do that this weekend. In previous blogs I mentioned how much snow and rain they have had up here so far this year and the flooding it has caused. A bridge on the Trans Canada Highway between Revelstoke and Banff was flooded a day or two back which has closed that section of the highway. Unfortunately there aren't many options around this area without going hundreds of miles out of the way or waiting up to half a day for a ferry. We drove the route that is currently closed a week ago. Had we booked the trip in the reverse order we might be seeing way more of Canada than we had planned on seeing and maybe I wouldn't be so Dr. Phil like in saying "roll with it".
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/highway-1-closure-drivebc-1.4153269
Salmon Arm is a city of around 20,000 of the most laid back people I have ever seen. We love it here because it is about as far removed from the beaten path of tourists and travelers as you can get. Not a t-shirt or souvenir shop in sight! We've enjoyed walking the waterfront and downtown, eaten at a couple of nice restaurants and even taken in a movie at the downtown one screen theater. Heck, today we even did a little shopping and visited the Wal-Mart not once but twice! We're not ones to pass up a bargain and of course there are the "Everyday Low Prices" of Wally World but thanks to a very favorable exchange rate we're getting around 25% more of a discount! The movie tonight....... two tickets, popcorn, diet coke and m&m's for $18! If the natural beauty of this part of Canada isn't enough for you consider coming for the prices!
http://shuswaptourism.ca/discover/salmon-arm